What is a Cantata? 19 July 2019
What is a Cantata? Our Principal Keyboard Steven Devine explains as he accompanies soprano Rowan Pierce in Bach's Cantata Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten (Yield now, troubling shadows) BWV202.
"A cantata is usually a short composition of several movements that features a story. The word cantata comes from the Italian 'cantare', which means 'to sing'."
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